The lawsuit by Ray Epps comes after Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to settle that company's defamation lawsuit accusing Fox Corp. of making false claims about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
The suit by Epps, a former U.S. Marine, said that as Fox recently learned in the Dominion case, "its lies have consequences." The suit accuses former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was fired on the heels of the Dominion settlement, of being the primary promoter of the false conspiracy theory about Epps. He was among the throng of supporters of then-President Trump who gathered outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Epps and other Trump backers believed false claims by Trump and his allies that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged in favor of President"In the aftermath of the events of January 6th, Fox News searched for a scapegoat to blame other than Donald Trump or the Republican Party," said Epps' complaint, filed in the same Delaware Superior Court where Dominion sued.
"Eventually, they turned on one of their own, telling a fantastical story in which Ray Epps — who was a Trump supporter that participated in the protests on January 6th — was an undercover FBI agent and was responsible for the mob that violently broke into the Capitol and interfered with the peaceful transition of power for the first time in this country's history," the suit said.The suit also said that in May, the U.S.
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